Wednesday Practice Report
Arkansas running back Darren McFadden showed off the light vest he is wearing around his bruised ribs Wednesday after practice. The 6-2, 215-pound junior insisted he was fine after the soreness became aggravated during a 34-15 victory over Tennessee-Chattanooga last Saturday.
“It’s something that takes getting used to,” McFadden said. “But I want to be on the field. It doesn’t affect me too much. I think it’s more of a mental block.”
McFadden will be ready to go Saturday, when Arkansas faces Auburn at 6:45 p.m. inside Razorback Stadium. And so will senior flanker Robert Johnson, who had a bag of ice taped to the bottom of his right leg as he left practice early Wednesday. Johnson missed the Razorbacks’ last game after spraining his ankle before the Hogs’ 66-7 victory over North Texas on Sept. 29.
“He’s doing fine,” Arkansas coach Houston Nutt said. “We didn’t want to get him too sore. He ran a lot of really good routes today. He did half the script.”
HERRING AND SON TO MEET AGAIN
Adam Herring is a redshirt freshman linebacker at Auburn. His dad, Reggie, is the defensive coordinator at Arkansas. So are father and son going to exchange secrets this week before the Tigers and Razorbacks play?
“We’re not communicating out of respect to Auburn and vice versa,” Reggie Herring said. “He’s decided to come home and see Ruby and Champ, my dogs. He won’t see Dad but about two minutes after the game.”
OTHER NOTES
- The Wade Grayson experiment is over — at least for now. Mitch Petrus will again start at left guard this Saturday for the Razorbacks. Grayson, a freshman from Harrison, was on the field for the first snap of Arkansas’ game against Tennessee-Chattanooga last week.
- Just in case anybody was wondering, Arkansas will use a different approach to defending freshman dual-threat quarterback Kodi Burns. “You go from a dropback thrower, run play-action football team to an option QB, run-type of offense,” Herring said. “So you have to have a plan for it and be prepared. It’s more a distraction than it is a concern”
Could someone please tell David Lee that having to pass the football on 3rd and 8.. 9.. 10+ is not a passing attack. It is simply an act of desperation, with absolutely everyone well aware of what is to be called. Result: DMAC, Hillis and Felix continue to get hammered, Casey D. and receivers continue to lack confidence and Arkansas continues to lose to the upper echleon, defense minded teams in the SEC. Come on, man. Show some creativity and bring this so-called offense into modern day times. Where’s the balance you guys have forever craved and raved about? BEAT AUBURN.
You rather tell Nutt (not Lee): “Come on, man. Show some creativity (in your brain) and bring this so-called offense into modern day times (rather than old Frank’s out-dated smash-mouth offense). Where’s the balance (in your brain) you guys have forever craved and raved about?”
The passing-game problem has been persistent way way long before Lee came.
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